THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH TRIPLE SHEET PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1867.
tliis Miopia not be done. The conntry has
already jmid much more than the rout of
printing ecveral thousand rnnicft of "Forney
on Kuroj'e" for the diplomatic elViiHions of one
f Mr. Forney'B fellow-laborers in the propa
gation of virtue and liberty; and while Mr.
coward's octavos are greatly more voluminous
than the duodecimo before us, they are not a
bit more instructive and not nearly bo
stunning.
That la to gay, tf a well-regulated mind can
permit itself tobeatnuied rather than to be
angered by the exhibition of human fatuity,
ignorance, and impudence, in their ripest and
moBt offensive exuberanoe. Concerning this
we have our doubts. Whether to laugh, at
Forney or to lash him, le "discreetest, vir
tuoupeBt, best," we cannot easily deoide. In
his ridiculous aspeots as an author, Forney, it
must be remembered, although extremely
comical, is also extremely insignificant. lie
writes amazing balderdash about things and
people, but "Vixcrunt stitlti ante Johannem,"
and considered merely as a specimen noodle it
would hardly be worth while to impale
Lim. It is only because this blundering
twaddler really is a representative man of the
great Republican party by which this coun
try is just now ruled, that we feel moved to
think of Lim at all, and when we think
of him in this way he exasperates much more
than he entertains us. It is humiliating that
euch a farrago of trash as these "Letters" of
his thould be put before mankind as the pro
duction of a person conspicuous among the
leaders of a great American party. Of the
many griefs we bear against our radical foe
men in politics, this is the sorest grief of all,
that they have saddled the Union with a
dynasty of dunces. To be trampled upon
and kicked can never be agreeable; but there
are quadrupeds noble and quadrupeds ig
noble; and if we must be stamped upon and
ran ovtr, it were at least desirable to meet
our fate at the hoofs of "stallions shod with
fire."
Let the reader then hear with ns, if in show
ing him what manner of stuff this bicephalous
radical editor and Secretary of the Senate
thinks fit to print and index for the edification
olmankind, we may occasionally seem to have
lost our tempers. It is a conceded fact that,
tinder certain provocations, even a saint may
swear. We proceed at once to set forth our
provocations.
In the first place, then, Forney's tricks with
the English langnage are enough to bring np
Lindley Murray out of his grave, and drive
that peaceful Quaker to the last extremities of
personal violence, lie begins on his very first
page by Baying that he wrote the letters which
he now publishes in book form, not only to
convey "his Lonest impressions" about mat
ters and things to the readers of Lis two
papers, both daily, but also to "occupy the
hours of anxiety common to all strangers in
foreign lands." ftow what under heaven can
this mean f What are "the hours of anxiety
common to all Btrangers in foreign lands?"
1 That Forney should have had his own parti
cular "hours of anxiety" is conceivable,
enough, nor is it wholly inconceivable
however improbable it may be,
that he . should have preferred to
drown his cares in a bottle of ink rather
than in a pot of beer, lie very likely had
many uneasy moments when thinking of what
his chances might be of keeping his plaoe in
the Senate, or meditating how to square the
circle of his official accounts, or reflecting on
the subscription lists of his two papers, both
daily." But for most "strangers in foreign
lands," the "hours of anxiety" which they
experience are made such by problems of trans
mitJbion chiefly, and so are consumed in cus
tom houses or passport bureaus, or other
similar and even less commodious place3. I
Does Forney wish us to believe that he penned
these epistles of his while the minions of
tyranny were tumbling among his socks and
cravats in his carpet-bag, or that they dropped
peristaltic seclusion which bring dejection at
intervals alike to the simpleton and
to the sage, to the traveller and to
the hermit, to the peasant ' in his
cottage and to the prince within his palace
walls f For any substance of thought in what
he eays, and for any savor of sweetness or
charm in his way of saying it, this, to be sure,
might be credible. Ilis incoherence is simply
wonderful. On his way over iu the Scotia, for
example, "he was agreeably surprised to find
himself almost wholly undisturbed by this
new experience of a life at sea, in the last
hours of" his voyage 1 The "study" of the
came steamer's "splendid proportions, won
derful accommodations, and resistless march
through the sea," made him "marvel that
anybody on board should not feel compara
tively comfortable," and this the more
deeply that "no incident marred the voyage,"
and that the ship had "twenty Fhiladel
phians on board." lie was greatly im
pressed also by the "congeniality" of the
ship's company, and came to the astonishing
conclusion that "when we separate the re
, gret at parting will be increased by the recol
lection that our intercourse might have been
profitably prolonged 1" It is quite usual, of
course, to regret one's separation from people
in exact proportion to the unprofitableness of
intercourse with them I But how does one go
about to "recollect" what "might have
been f" Forney was tremendously delighted
because George Feabody crossed the Atlantio'
with him and spent much time, as he Bays, In
"studying," the verba to "study" and to
"etare" being with Forney synonymous, the
"venerable philanthropist," as he "lay dozing
on sofas." He came to the conclusion that
Mr. 1'eabody's head "rivals the best of the
old aristocracy," and au-o that his work
"silences hypercritloism." In the same con
nection .Forney feels bound to lament that "the
Britibh aristocracy do not respond to the oall
of a genial philanthropy," and'that "none but
an American san truly feel for the sufferings of
- the unfriended poor." At the same time,
while prononncing this maxim, he could not
but remember that in regard to Europe "how
ever much he had read of it, he should doubt
less be alinest as strange as poor Robinson
. Crusoe, when he was leit. surprised and sou
tary, on the island of Juan Fernandez 1 for all
experience tells that the most careful student
of foreign nanus ana History nnas all his con
ceptions at fault and all his calculations baf
fled when he applies the surer test of actual
observation and personal contact." After
thinking out this striking thought, Forney
retired to take a little "subterranean repose."
"When became up again, several days after.
he found the "air keen and bracing, and the
sea almost as level as the Fotomao or the De-
ware!" Of this phenomenonhe took advan
tage to get a young American on board to
write mm out a "plan" for "interesting"
some oi ills "moneyed friends" In a
Scheme for combining Nnrwsniin ImmlcrrA..
tion with speculations in iron, to the manifest
detriment of those pure and perfect
l ennsyivauians wnora ne habitually professes
to regard as the apple of his eye. He also
contrived to (tet up a set of "Resolutions"
thanking Mr. l'eabody for being Mr. Peabodv.
and praising him particularly for not being
Mr. buiitlioon or Mr. Girard. It is a sore
penalty of philanthropy that it exposes people
to this tort of thing; but Mr. l'eabody seems
to have borne the trial bravely, and snubbed
the fawning Forney profitably by requesting
him to "strike out the whole passage referring
to (iirardand Smilbson."
Once landed in the Old World, Forney was
"very much edified" at Liverpool to find the
people destitute of "greenbacks and mll
currency." Some "very amusing mistakes,"
he tells ns, "were the result of this remark
able State of things," but the final upshot of it
was to make Forney 7'.nore than ever anxious
for the return of specie payments in the
United States." After which he retired to
rest for his first night in England, and was not
surprised, nor will anybody else be, to find his
"slumber visited by couflictintc and illogical
visions." It was no better with him when he
awoke the next day, nor, indeed, throughout
bis tour. Ilis book is one long ind gestion.
To follow him throughout its "conflicting and
illogical" chapters would give one the night
mare for a lifetime. He seems to have taken
his compaiison of himself to Robinson Crusoe
as a "happy thought," and proceeds to speak
of Great Britain, France, Switzerland, and
Germany as if no civilized foot before his own
had ever trod those remote and mysterious
Bhores.
Going down by rail from Halifax to Liver
pool, at the rate of thirty miles an hour, he
was surprised that no "living object inter
rupted or threatened his progress," and having
neither been thrown off the rails by a herde of
banditti nor run over a Sunday school, he
came to the conclusion "that the absence of
human beings from these fertile and shining
acres proved the presence of the government
of the aristocracy." The "aristocraoy," in
deed, were always on his mind, but he was
nevertheless greatly pleased with what he
describes as the "exclusive little snuggeries"
of the English railway carriages, and he takes
immense satisfaction in stating that hs went
over a carpet factory in company with the
"son of a baronet." It also made a profound
impression upon him that a "member of Par
liament In a railway car,", should have told
him that the "inevitable suocess of the plan
of reconstruction proved Americans to be a
wonderful race."
In London Forney quite exceeded himself.
He thought the Parliament Houses, "so rich in
precious historical reminiscences, that the
British statesmen could have probably deli
berated nowhere else with any desire to keep
before them the warnings of their own his
tory." What this surprising sentence means
only Heaven and Sumner know. To mortals
it is a hard saying. His fine perception of
character was illustrated in the House of Com
mons by his detection of a resemblance be
tween Charles Sumner and Mr. Gladstone,
who are really just as much like one another
as the late New York elections were like a
Republican victory, or as Forney is like
Robinson Crusoe. He pays his radical
employers of the Senate in general, how
ever, the left-handed compliment of being
surprised to find "Mr. Disraeli's voice
and manner those of a gentleman." Concern
ing political matters in England, Forney, two
weeks after his landing, discourses finally and
with prophetio wisdom. The insicht of
Bunsby meets in this great man with the elo-'
quence or Elijah 1'ogram. The future," he
Baitb, "will take care of itself. Whether the
end sees the overthrow of monarchy or not, it
will assuredly witness the victory of the
people. The English are governed more by
their religious, political, and literary tradi
tions than almost any other race, exoepting
always the American 1 It will be some gene
rations before they decide upon the experi
ment of a republic, unless, indeed, they are
hurried into another revolution."
Take away the Secretaryship of the Senate
irom a thinner or mis force and profundity I
The idea ia-nionstrous 1 He has had such ex
perience, too I When he listened to Disraeli
on tne Reform bin his mma "went back
twenty years," to the time when, "as a Demo
cratic editor," he (Forney) "read and reviewed
in the Washington Union that remarakable
novel 'Coningsby,' " upon which he glorified
Gtd "that the views expressed by him of Mr.
Disraeli, while he was the editor of a Demo
cretic pro-6lavery paper, are made good while
he is cooperating with the only true Demo
cracy in the world the Republican party of
America 1"
Turn this man out of the Secretaryship of
the tenate 1 There is maaness in the thought
"Mr. Bricht and his friends" got punished for
their American sympathies by undergoing a
good deal of Forney. What they suffered they
of course have been too polite to say. a orney,
on his part, exclaims: "1 have never experi
enced rarer pleasure than in listening to
them. How well they understand our par
ties 1 It was an agreeable surprise to find my
humble name almost familiar to them."
Ho feature in the brutal tyranny of the
British aristocracy more shocked and grieved
r orney than the expensiveness of the opera
"A clance at these prices," cries Forney,
"sufliciently proves the impossibility of the
poorer classes in England enjoying operatio
harmonies." In our free and happy land, as
is well known, nothing is more common than
for a deck laborer or a coal-heaver, atter his
dav's work is done, to buy a pair of white
kid gloves, and pass his evening in an orches
tra Btail at the Academy oi music The
superiority in every particular of all sorts
and kinds of things and people In America was
continually borne in upon the ample brain of
Forney, and he adduces the most unex
pected illustrations of this great truth. By
way of proving, for instance, that "none but
an American can respond to the call of a
genial philanthropy," Forney informs us that
Mr. l'eabody '8 generous gut to the London
poor has already stimulated one Englishman
to bestow a sum oi thirty thousand pounds
upon the Peabody Fund, while it has moved
Mr. A. T. Stewart, of New York to "procure
copies of the plans, and photographs of the
buildincs."
As to British religion, Forney evidently has
more piety in his little finger than John Bull
in his body, lie went to hear bourgeon, and
though he saw at once that "we have twenty
more powerful and cultivated divines In
Philadelphia," he recognized the vast merits
of that eminent preacher when contrasted
with the "ostentatious Church of i-og
land," and emitted the following amazing de
jeotion:
"When I look over this startling; scene of hu
man Ule. and think that three million of bu
rnt) n beluga are compressed Into fifteen miles
oi nrii'K dud mortar, una mat mere is not a day
(bul Denies from mornluii into DiWit. and from
n Ik U l Into eternity, tbul doe not see 'oue more
unfortunate' added to those who go to ttieir
long ucccunt unsbrlved and unknown, I feel
that I would rattier be Charles 11. Upurgeon,
surrounded with tbelove of the rescued souls
nl the working people of his pariah, thun tne
Lord iiisuop oi a mousanu parisues of Van
land." This is very nice. But it was better when
Forney went to Westminster Abbey. "Very
grand," he exclaims, "were the monuments
to Shakespeare, Pitt, Canning, Wilberforoe
and Peel, and the men and women who came
after them, some eminent in arms, letters and
aits, and others only known for their titles
and their vices!" "Very useful to the student,"
adds this thoughtful man, "were the dates re
vived and the facts freshened by these start
ling pictures in stone 1"
Then, having had his "dates revived" and
his "facts freshened," Forney "looked into
the glazed tyrn of these marvellous figures"
and tugged at his own waistband, and luted
hirosell quite off the ground, say a foot or so,
and gasped in poetio prose. He thought of all
kinds of things, of Benjamin Franklin and
John Adams, "the grandfather of the eminent
citizen who now reflects such honor nnon our
country at the English court," and whose
dumal lot, we may add, It is to be obliged to
invite cacual Republican politicians to dinner.
He thought also of Lord Baltimore, and Wil
liam Penn and the Pilgrim Fathers. "Would
it be irreverent," he asks, "to say that most
of these men always felt that their country
as misunderstood and misrepresented in
England; that its asserted greatness was fre
quently ignored and its claim as a free govern
ment set aside as presumptuous in the pre-
Bence of the hated Institution of slauery, pro
tected by onr Constitution f" To which we
reply, unhesitatingly, that to say this of men
who died a century or bo before our Constitu
tion was drawn up, would hardly be "irreve
rent," though it might be idiotic. It seems
indeed to have bad the effect of destroying
utterly what Blight coherence ever exists in
the mind of Forney, who went straight on
into this astoundingly delirious outburst:
"I soon answered thli Question to myself. As
the mblcnnd Terer carried ns through these
stony aisles and with his routine voice gave us
our shilling worm oi isriiisn nisiory, i. some
times B8ked who slept beneath tbe marble
floor, and more than once he told me that tbe
name bad been obliterated, and, of course, tbe
sutjeet Itself forgotten. Almost Involuntarily
1 tnrned to my own country, and remembered
that, if we had no great monumental store
bouhe In which to preserve our best beloved,
we had what was better, In tbe burial grounds
of tbe heroes who died that lloerty might live.
In an instant my last visit to ine saored
fields north and south of Washington
city reappeared to me with all its soul-
moving incidents, it was only a iweiveraontn
aao an evening In May, full of tbe flush
and perfume of an early Southern summer.
now ainerrnt tne leeuug timti mruieu
and filled me then from tbe cold surprlHe and
calculating Inquiry of my visit to Westminster
Abbey I 1 aaw the graves of over five thousand
of the three hundred thousand that fought and
fell in tbe mighty elrnpgle against slavery; and
if I stood In tbe midst of tbe memories they
awakened without tears, who will blame me?
There, as In this old Abbey, tbere were some
wnoee lormsnaa noiomy passea irom tne ear in,
but whose very names bod been lost in tbe din
or battle. What American wuo has pansed be
tween the silent streets of these cities of the
herolo dead, has not agonized over the inscrip
tion that recorded so many of the sleepers
among the 'unknown?' 13ut not forgotten,
like tbe antique dust of tbe Abbey tbe dust,
doubtless, of aome of the man hunters of the
past. Thank God for It, no I We need build no
t iwering piles, hew no colossal figures, carve no
stony wreatns, trace no nonow praises, to Keep
their aeeos iresn ana iragrant in a nation s te
nacious gratitude."
Some may prefer spring, some may prefer
summer; but as for me give me liberty or
give me death 1 The Star Spangled Banner I
Both daily t And advertisements accurately
inserted at the usual rates.
When Forney, on matters religions, falters
from drivel into flat blasphemy we decline to
follow him, as where, for example, on attend
ing service at St. George's Chapel, he ob
serves: "I am frank to say that it seems to
me God must give a warmer welcome to the
fervent Congregationalist than to the perverse
Ritualist." Uis conception of the Almighty,
in fact, as it daily shines oat here and there
through his book, seems to be a grotesque
compound of the gentlemanly barkeeper of the
"Continental Hotel, Philadelphia," with the
President of a Loyal League Club.
Astonishing as Forney is in England, he is
nothing to Forney on the Continent. Being
utterly unable either to read or speak- or
understand a word of French or German, he
was unrestrained by any external influences
in forming and uttering his opinions in regard
to the politics, the social life, and the religion
ci the French and German people.
Here is his way of "studying" French pou
tics: "The Emperor's Government being the
great political European problem, I tried to
get a close view of it, and this afternoon visitei
the Corps Legislatif, the same as the House of
Commons in England, and the House or ite
nresentatives in the United States." "I did
not understand what was said." However,
"Dr. Evans, of Philadelphia," settled in the
Rue de la Paix, is the best dentist in the
world. Forney dined with Dr. Evans, and saw
in the Bois de Boulogne "the dangerously beau
tiful demi-monde and the fast men who follow
them into the valley and the shadows." So
he was enabled to form a great many valuable
opinions in regard to the Corps Legislatif,
and to thank God for the morality of his own
people, who would rather trap a tipsy man
into betraying a woman than suffer vice to
flourish like a green bay tree. He went to
Bee all the "nude ballets," too, and condemned
them severely; and having Been the Sultan
whose "diplomatic title," as to our profound
amazement he informs us, is "the Sublime
Porte." sitting side by Bide with "the Modern
Ca?6ar," he was good enough to pray "that
the comedy might not, like that stupendous
spectacle of 1790, end in a tragedy that
would cover half the world with fire and
blood."
Here is his way of enlightening himself
about Germany:
"At Coblents I stayed one evening and part of
n day to get a reasonable idea or me extreme
Prussian sentiment aud of the vast preparations
of tbe Government."
But enough, and more than enough, of this
dreary bosh. How Forney went to Switzer
land and made a speech about William leu
and Governor Cnrtin; he who took Normandy
to be a "Roman Duchy," and Grosvenor to
mean "gubernatorial station;" how he gazed
in amazement on "four hundred persons' in
the British Commons, and two hundred in the
French Corps Legislatif, not one of whom in
dulged In tbe American practice of spitting;"
how he was shocked by free trade, and pleased
with the Tower of London; how he regards Mr,
Stanton as the greatest living statesman, and
how he agreed with John Bright in the hope
that "ere long colored s'atesmen, the equals
of our white leaders, would take their place in
Congress;" all these things it were long to tell,
longer to read of.
If any one, worn and weary with wading
through even 'his mitigated marsh of t orney,
ask us wherefore we meddle therewith, let
him be answered that this man is a Pharisee
and a Scribe in the Synagogue of the Republi
cans. He is a type of their culture, of their
character, of their intelligence, their leaon
ableness, their general fitness to deal with the
destinies of a great people, and with tbe
problems of reconstruction in America.
"These be thy gods! O Israel 1" And they
that make them are like unto them; likewise
is every one that belleveth in them.
SAAC D. EVANS,
MANXTrACTUKEB AND DEAIJEB III
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OITT INTELLIGENCE.
roa additional udcal itbmsbbs outbids ra as.
SrxciAL Mebtiho op Commok Council. Com
mon Council held a meeting yesterday after
noon to consider appropriation bills and bills
Irom Select Council. Joseph K. Mrcer, Esq.,
called the Chamber to order at a quarter past
3 o clock, and the following busmeta was trans-
actcu:
Tne bill from Select Council granting the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company permUsion to
erect certain telegraph poles, with an amend
ment, was considered and the amendment
agreed to. Aleo, an ordinance declaring tne
licenses of Passenger Railway Companies in
valid so long aa they duooey tne municipal law.
An ordinance making an appropriation of
$300,700 to tbe Department lor supplying the
City with Water for the expenses ot 1808 wa
patted. iThis bill was postponed last Tnure
daj.) Also, an ordinance appropriating $ti'J8,773
to the Department oi Police.
Air. biujpsou moved to increase tne Item
making an appropriation tor tbe repair ot tne
ilauaj utile Station House irom f oou to f U,6tH),
in oroer tbat a lot may be purchased and a new
station bouse erected. Agreed to. Hub.equeotly
HU, too was inserted in lieu oi iz,ooo. inner
amendments were made, and the bill then
passtd.
An ordinance appropriating f 1022 to pay the
expenses ot the League Island Commission and
the City Solicitor was passed. An ordinance
making an additional appropriation of $8500 tor
tbe eatenelon of the female department of -the
county prion and the alteration of the hospital
wa agreed to.
Mr. Ray, fiom the Committee on Highways,
submitted various leports; one authorizing
pradinz. curbior. etc.. on East WainutUne.
'iwenty-secoud ward; one authorizing the open
ing oi uearneiu street, irom f rankiord road ana
Waterloo ureet.
Mr. Billineton, from the Committee on Police.
presented a report giving rermission to the
BaptistChurcb, northwest comer of Broad and
Spruce streets, to construct a turnout on the
west side ot uroaa street, providei there is an
agreement to take said turnout up ac tho expi
ration ot one vear.
jur. uaraeiey. irom tne uommitteeon surveys,
made a report in the matter ot the filling up of
a dock on tbe Delaware front by the retuerrom
a distillery. Tbe Committee point out an ordi
nance already in existence covering the case.
Tbe report was adopted. AUo a report, with an
ordinance attached, ordering the location or a
lewer on Berks street, near Twtnty-eecond,
Twentieth Ward. Also a report In reierence to
tbe drainage of Cobocksink creek. Postponed.
Mr. Stockbam, Irom the Committee on Port
Wardens, reported an ordinance authorizing tho
transter of the lease or Arch street wharf (Dela
waie). Also, an ordinance making an addi
tional appropriation of $5000 to the Trustees of
tbe C.ty Ice Boat lor 1808, that tbe Schuylkill
may De kept open in the winter months, irom
Gibson's Point to the Delaware. It is proposed
to double man the boat. Postponed fur the
prefent.
air. wiuus, from ine committee on Markets,
reported an ordinance regulating stalls in
market-bouses. Passed.
Mr. Vai kirk, irom tbe Committee on Rail
roads, asked that the Committee be discharged
rrom tbe limber consideration of the allegation
that Ihe City Railroad was out of order, the
Committee reporting that there was no founda
tion for such allegation.
Mr. Wiiiits, irom the spec'al committee
ch arced with the investigation ot the cause of
tbe coldness of the Quarter Sessions Court
room, in the new t. ourt iiouso, and the District
Court room, reported that the complaint! wero
well founded, and onered a resolution making
an appropriation lor the purchase of two stoves
for the new Court House and one each for the
District Courts.
After considerable debate the resolution
passed jeas, 30; nays, 7.
Mr. liiiungtoo moved to take np the ordinance
organizing a paid Fire Department. The Presi
dent said the motion was not In order.
Mr. Poller moved to resume the consideration
of an ordinance making au appropriation to tae
Trustees of tbe City Ice Boat. The motion was
creed to, aud Common Council resolved Ha ell
into a Committee ot the Whole. The amount of
appropriation is $13,300.
The' amendment mak'ng an additional appro
pilatiou ior keeping the Schujlkill river open
was agreed to. The Dill was then reported and
parsed.
jur. rotter cauea up toe ordinance making an
appropriation of $07,030 to the Board of Health
ior 1B68. The item of $12,000 for tbe removal
of nuisances was made $10,000. Atter one or
twootber amendments, tbe bill was reported.
Mr. Wagner moved to appropriate $0000 for
the erection of a house for the Resident Physi
cian. Pending the discussion of the matter, the
Cb amber adjourned.
Meetiko of tbb Gdardians op the Poor.
The regular meeting of toe Board of Guardians
of the Poor took place yesterday aliernoon, Pre
sident Jobn M. Whitall in the chair.
The House Aeent reports the lollowing census
of the Home, etc., tor the week ending Satur
day, December 21,1868. Number id House at
12 o'clook M., 3441; same time last year, 3271.
Increase, 170. Admitted within the last two
weeks, 290; births, 6; deaths, 33; discharged, 83;
Alrnu4 OR XT i rv I if tuiiibaiis aranlai I I r
ihgs within tbe last two weeks, 302; number of
persons eramea meais wunin tne last two
weeks. 751. Toe Steward reported the House
receipts at $73969; and the eraierant tax at
$104. The Outdoor Agent reported having col
lected for support case, 136 bo. The Commit
tee on School for Feeble-Minded Children re
ported progress, and were continued. The
Btewaid's requisitions were read and approved.
A long dlt-cufsion took place over the beating
and ventilating arrangements ot tbe House,
some of the members declaring tbat thev were
defective, and in consequence the inmates of
tne iioute were at times permuted to suffer.
Ar'jr i .ued.
Masokio Funeral. The funeral of William
B. Scbnlder took place vesterday, at 2 o'clock.
irom the Masonic flail, and was oneot tbe most
imposing demonstrations made by the fraternity
lor a nuinoer oi 3 ears past, as a meraoer 01 toe
Grand Lodge, and (irand T?ler. the deceased
was universally known in the Order, and the
Grand Lodge, as well as the su lord in ate Lodges,
attended ihe obsequies aa a maik ot respect.
Ihe body ot tbe deceased was bud out in the
Blue Room, and dm ing tbe morning a large
number ot persons viewed 1 be remains. A hand'
some coffin, covered with black velvet and orna
mented witbsilver handles, contained the body,
hiie near the remains were deposited tho
regalia and insienla of the deceased.
At two o'clock the funeral procession left the
hall. Tbe members ot tbe Order walked from
the hall, tbe Ineuds and rela'ivea alone being
provided with carnages. Past Masters David
Golden, J. 1m rJU'Chinson, Washington 1. blu-
.1 1 41 l! Im.n Ltonl. U ..Hon
P. Jones, George 8. Jones and Samuel Price, of
Laiajette Lodge, No. 71, ot wu'cu tbe deceased
was a member, acted as the pall Hearers, uver
one thousand Masons participated in the fune
ral ceremonies, and at Monument uemetery,
where the rites incident to tbe burial of a mem
ber of tbe fraternity were peitormed, the t-cene
was a very impressive one. Grand Master Vaux
read the funeral service, the responses being
made by ihe members ot the Grand Lodge. Tbe
Washington Hose Company, or whion the de
ceased was a member, alo attended the iuneral,
Bubglabiouh Dooobrel. The polioe authori
ties have enriched their archives by a g;m of
burglarious literature. Tbe residence ol Joseph
Titlow. Germautown avenue and Township Hue
road, was visited on Sunday night by a set of
thieves, uiey Drone open nis hennery, and
carried off twenty fowls and two geese. The
Impudent peculator pinned to the door of the
hen-houte a scrap of paper, upon which was
written inese lines:
"Our jaws is strong and our teeth is keen,
And we'll eat every won of voure rhk'keene,
We'll ielt tbe bones oat of them there seeso
And what we cau'l eat we'll sell at a dollar a
reese,
And when tbe soon Is all cone up.
OI whisky we'll take up.
And as we drink, we'll think of you
VTce hope the same thing you will doo.n Amen,
Y0CH8 Mks's CnRi'TiAN Association. The
regular monthly meeting of this Association was
held at their Hall, No. 1210 Chesnut street, last
night, A. M. Burton, Eoq., presiding. After
brief religious exercises, tho inmates of the pre
ceding meeting were rend.
"Beautiful Snow" was read by rrofcrsor Rufus
Adam?.
Mr. William II. Marti was introduced, and
rrad an excellent essay, which was received
with great applause.
Reports of Committees being called for, the
Committee on Temperance presented a report,
which report recommended temperance ser
mons, temperance meetings, and the distribu
tion of temperance tracts; aWo, tbat a book be
kept at ths rooms Kith the following preamble
and pledger
Whereas, Christianity, patriotism, and phllin
thropby alike demand that all who aro well dis
posed should surround themselves with proper
safeguards against temptation, and take a de
cided stand against vice in every form; and
Whereat, Intemperance is a crying evil In our
midst, making homes miserable, legislation in
secure, and eternity hopelessly dsrk to many of
our fellow-men, thcreiore, trusting in Divine
strength, I pledge myself not to buy, sell, give,
of use intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and
to discountenance their use In tbe community.
The report was received, and on motion, after
difcuBsion by Means. Dale, Crlder, Moore, and
others, tbe report was adopted.
The exercises twere delightfully Interspersed
with vecal and instrumental music by the Bi ad
bury Musical Society. Eisbty young men were
proposed and elected members. The following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Kesotved, Tbat our thanks are due and are
bcieby tendered to the Bradbury Mustc Society
aid to Protestor Adams; alao to Mr. Maris, the
Estaist.
Alter singing, the meeting adjourned, with
benediction by Rev. John Moore.
The CortroIiLbbs of Public Schools. This
body held, as at present constituted, their final
meeting yesterday aiternoon. There was a full
attendance, and a number ot spectators were In
the lobby.
President Fhlppen was In the chair.
A batch of communications Irom the various
schrol sections, asking ior appropriations and
improvements of various kinds, wexe submitted
and referred.
An invitation to the Board to be present at tbe
commencement, this morning, of the Girls' High
bchoo), was received and aecepted.
Mr. M. Hall Stanton otlered a resolution of
thanks to the secretary and messengers of tho
Board, which was adopted unanimously.
Anoi her resolution was otlered giving thanks
for their services to the retiring members.
A resolution was ottered by Mr. Freeborn that
the Secretary be instructed to withhold war
rants due to the principal teachers of schools
who shall in luture readmit pupils into their
schools who have been regularly admitted into
either of the High Schools, and who voluntarily
absent themselves thererrom; and also from
tbo$e who shall retain scholars who have com
pleted their course ot instruction in said schools.
lor toe purpose 01 teaching 1 hem more advanced
studies than those allowed by the Grammar
bcnoois. lois was aaoptoa.
The Board then formally adjourced.
The new Board meets on tne Urst Monday in
January to organize. It is understood that Pre
sident fchupeii, having crowned witn success
his lorg labors, will retire from the Presidency
of the board, and tbat M. Hall Stanton Esq., will
he called to preside over tno deliberations 01
the new Hoard.
Destructive Fire in Camden. The Camden
rolling mill, nail works, foundry, and machine
shop, situated at Cooper's Point, were totally
destrojei by ore yesterday anernoon. ine ore
commenced in tne southeastern part 01 tne ma
chine thop, abont 3 o'clock. One of the
nuddlers was throwing water into bis furnace.
when It exploded, setting tire to the structure,
which in a tew minutts enveloped tbe whole
mill. Ihere were four heating furnaces, seven
puddlcrs' furnaces, and one scrap lurnace.
There were eleven boilers and four large en-
pines In the works. When the hrc broke out
the rafety valves of the boilers were opened to
nrevent their eTulos 00. The largest boiler.
however, ciacked with the heat, allowing tho
water to run out. The Treasurer and Agent,
John w. uiddieton, intorms us tuat the mm
was running on full time, night and day,
employing upwards of two hundred men.
whose salaries amounted to $9u0 per day. The
loss is ebttraated at $70,000, on which there
is an insurance of $36,010. The 1 hiladelphla
nreutu mwi uver 10 assist in saving tue pro
perty.
Thb Meetiko of the Members of the Board
of Tmadk, originally appointed for this evening,
has been postponed until Monday evening next.
80th inst., at 8 o'clock. The resolutions to be
submitted for the approval of tho members are
ot vital importance to the interests of commerco
and the welfare of the country. The attendance
should therefore be large, as no hu;i nPAi man
cannowaflord to be indiflerent to the trreat
ddsuchii quciiium ui lue oay. as Christmas
eve is scarcely a time for business discussions,
the meeting has been judiciously deferred to the
time aoove-nameo.
GROCERIES, ETC.
JTBESII FRUITS,
WILD BASFBEBBIEt,
PEACHES
FLtHS
TOMATOES IS GLASS JABS AND CANS
FOB BALE BY
JAMES Ft. WEOB,
mi
1TA1.NCT ANDEISJUTH MTU,
f E W FRUIT.
Double and Single Crown, Layer, 8 edleas, and San
tana RAISIN 8..
CURltANTfl, CITRON ORANGES,
PRUNES, riQS, ALMONDS, ETC.
AIXEBT O. BOREBTS,
Dealer In Fine Groceries.
lWfrp Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Bta.
JSq-EW CITRON, CHOICE QUALITY, 35 CTS.
S KW CURRANTS, Choioe Quality, is c nta.
NEW RAISINS, lor 22 cents to SO cents.
CHOICE BULTANA RAISINS.
PTJBE SPICES, 01DJLR, COOKING WINE3, AND
BRANDIES, at
COUSTY'S East End Grocery,
1 10 12t No. US South SECOND Street. .
II It I 8 T M A 8 WEEK-TO GROCERS
ASD DKALhlKM. Juat rt-OKived from Roulies
ttr, New York, a superior lot of Hweei cider, hIho
some line Virginia, C'rao. P. J. JORDAN, No. i&i
r E.AK btreet, below Third and Waluul sis. 11 7 Jap
TO GROCERS, nOTELrKEEPERS,
1'AIIILIKK, AND Ol HEUH.-Tueuuderaii-riKd
likS ul rro-ived a Ireab supply ot Catawba, Califor
nia, anO C'bumpsgu. Wlnett, "To mo" Ale (for in
validn) coualaully on hand. P. J. JOKUAN, No. ti
PJlaH blreet, below Third and Walnut sts. ll 7!p
QECKHAUS & ALLCAIER
Rtapecttully Invlts attention to their large and varied
stock of
SUrERIOIt FAMILY CARKIAGES
or latest styles, with all the most recent Improve
ments of finish.
ELEGANT LANDAU,
Juit completed.
Alio. CLARENCE COACHES AND 00TJPK3 Ol
llOeienlsiylrs.
MANUFACTORY AND WABEROOMS,
SO. M0 rUANIiKOBD AVENUE,
X QlraM Aysnaa, USnnwemrp
AMUSEMENTS.
A CADE MY OP MTinifl.
GEORGE, "WILLIAM ALFRED HANLOIT,
FOR THE HOLIDAYR DWTV
F?mcu? lavoriiea-int wonasrfnl n
13 AN LON RROTnETmi TTANI.ON BROTH WRflJ
t)orgi. William and Aliu. wlih ibalr ranl
Trans-At'antlo Onibloailon. Twtnty mmt aud
Itmale Cbiitlnrntal Arilfttex, .11 new to Am.rlca.
111K liANLON MRU'l HKIt
have scnrert tbe lollowlnn confederation Of bUnlQf
skill, lmlv ilrst aprearniic In this city;-
HAHUV OVIIH,
TBECHAMPTON bWlMMKH OF TDK WORLTV
the CPlebraird Natator or Human Fmn, In his mat
vellous quallc evolutions, In theooura. ol blcb bi
will rat, drink and smoks, while entirely submerged,
In his watery bed.
PHOFEePOR OREGOIRB.
KTHARDO, TUE (IRKAT bflitAL ABCEXV
HloMsT.
MATVM.K. OKKTRTTDlt.
and her highly trained Caulue Troupe of Seven Edtt
caiert French Poodles.
MlfcB OUKGOKY, TIIK.VFRHATILJB AKTlAjliS,
J KAN AND V1C IOK.
the Ptiimrlnp 3uven11rt tvuinanls of alt Fnronfl.
ALHt UIANDA 111 II UK. the A KRI A L WON IER.'
G MHi OK, WILLIAM, AND AL1KHII 11 AM GO
In their Intrepid and lerrlrlc Aerial F-ata. Including
their new ar.d wonderlul creation, entitled lb.
T11KKE FL VINO MEN OF TUE AIR,
first time In ibis city.
HANLON'S GKAND MINIATURE CIROTJH,
Introducing; the bemullul Trick Pony "Aurora," tha)
l'rrlornili.K Goat '-Kiimeralda," Ihe highly trained
Heed "Dlnna," and tbe celebrated Quadruped Artiste,
"Jupiter," tbe only Dog la tho world that has ben
tiiiifcht to ltble, Vault, l eap llalloona, etc., rivalling;
ine most accmpiiBiiea equestrians oi me oay. mi
whole Cai.lne rraternlly In
'I UK n LLJ rtillAJi Bir.itrhn-viiAnr. 1
New Curlsimas 1'antcmlme, entitled
I'KRfK 1 ITA 1. iriHMKNT.
In which the prominent members of tbe troupe Wll
a pear.
Hiiinii iiggiuay HAiinurn,
CHRISTMAS AND KAICRDaY AFrKKNOONS."
nt w o'cioc k, lor tbe ecpeclal accommodation ol
Fanillles aud Schools.
P KICKS OF ADMISSION.
To Matinees, Adults ....... ft
Children to all parts ol tbe House Hi
KvenliiES Orchestra ..iroo
Orcbenira Circle and Balcony.......................... IS
Family Circle. . - . M
Anipbltbeaire , 25
Doors ot.cn at 7, Overture commences at 1 o'clock;
precisely.
ILenaieor uckbtrui comniencn at ine Acanezny,
and at J. K. Gul'LP'H N w Piano Wareroonis.No, Vit
CHliHNUT Street, Friday. In ceo ber 2a
Remember that those who wlnh for seat most aa
cure tmin In advance.
"VTEW PHILADELPHIA OPERA nOU3S
JN HEVEN l It e tree t, beiow Area.
It. v. lUJMit-UiM tu rroprieios
TUN IKON A. (I.'H MINHThKIA.
W FIRST APPEARANCE OF S A NTA CUC",' .'
On Wednesday, and on every evening thereafter til.
laitner notice. ....
MbKKI G'lllllSTM A 1U ALLI
Pacta Clans I tianta Clans II Santa Clans 1 1!
A NEW bPECTAt'LE FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
A TUITAT VflH T H W. I.ITTf.B (INKS.
ONE THOUHAM) DOLLARS' WOWTH. OF TOYS
WILL n C JJJOiXViXJVJ
First appearance of ,,,, l
inuvwv MACK.
THE CELEBRATED ETHIOPIAN OOMEDIA1T,
Tofcelher with all me oiuer ctieumiea ui uis luau
moth troupe. ,rv
M ATI IN KM LJ1 IUOI ,i j- .1 ,HHiuyil
at i oclock.
FRIDAY EVENING, December 27,
BENEFIT OF WILLIAM ALLEN.
Doors open at 7 o'clock. Commeuce at 8,
Admission 85, 50, and 76 cents. Boxes, ti.
NEW CHESNUT STREET THEATER
THIS (Tuesday) EVEN IN', Deo, ii,
Will 'iPii.iin l Etii t i a
GRAND FAlhY bPEOTAOLK,
Founded on the Nursery Tale,
Clf I'EKELLA;
or, THE little glass blipfeb.
And entitled
CEJS DR1LLON.
Produced with
KEWJ1ND MAGNIFICENT SCENERY,
INTRICATE MECHANTAL EFFECTS,
giO NEW OST U M KB.
AND ELEGANT PR'iPEKTIES.
THREE PRINCIPAL NOLO DANOKftS,
A BALLET OF 75 YOUNG LADIES),
CENDR1LLON MATIN EKCHIU3TMA3
AFTERNOON.
WALNUT STB B KT THEATRE.
THIS (Tueday) EVENING. Deo. xl
LUCILLE WEoTEKN w.lt appear in nar area
ImperBouatlousot LADY ISABEL and MADAME;
VINE. In C. W. Tayleure s moral oramaof
EAST LIBiM; a, Ul exjur ax. .
J, B. Roberts as hlr Francis LevlaoU
AT 2 O'Cl OCK (DOORS OPEN AT ON
I'UkiniMAs AFTEKNOON.
Commencing with the lauulmble comadietta Of
NAlDHIC AND PHlL'IWIPtiY.
KS. JOHN DKfeW'8 ARCH BTBEE
THEATHE. Begins at 7 o'clock.
I.URS" FOR CHRISTMAS WEE IT.
MONDAY AND TI'ESOAY EVENINGS,
OUR-."
"With all Its Grand Eflects.
MRS. JOHN DREW as MARY NETIEY.
CHIUbTMAS AFTERNOON MATINEE,
"OlKs" AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Tickets, 60 and ss cents.
FRIDAY BENEFIT OF MRS. JOHN DREW.
SATURDAY Last "Our" Matinee.
MONDAY NhXT-LIOUT AT LAST. t
FOX'S AMI-. KICAN VARIETY THEATRE.
EVERY EVENING AND SATURDAY
AFTEKNOON.
GREAT COMBINATION TROUPE,
In Grand Bullets Ethiopian Bur ltsques, Bongs, Dancef
Pantomimes, Hymnaat- Auis. etc
HAVE COME.
The far-famed, original, and nn'y
AT CONCERT HALL. MONDAY EVENING, DftO
i.iJLiiv v l; L V I M J ilnrlnif tlin vu ttt If Al.
A GRAND MATINEE ON CHRISTMAS AFTER
NOON, commencing at 2 o'clock.
BILLY D ORRIS, tbe People's Comedian, with an a.
tlrely ntw entertainment, entitled
A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.
Admission, 25 cents. Reserved seats, 60 cents.
Doors open at to 7, To commence at to 8-
Box Oflice open from 10 A. M. to P. M. for tbssala
ol secured stats. CH Aw. A. MORRIS. Manager. 121at
OA R L SENTZ'B
ORCHESTRAL MATINEES.
EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON,..
At 8H o clock.
IN HORTICULTURAL HALLv
Plaoo Solo CARL KOESE
Package of Four Tickets for One Dullari '
Single Tickets, 60 cents.
To be had at Boner & Co.'s, No. HCSCheSnut atrC
rod at the door. u Xall
HASSLER'S MONDAY AFTERNOON CON
CER1S, at CONCERT HALL. EVERY HON
DA Y, Irom till 6 o'clock. . our Uckals. Six
thirty, ts.
GERMANIA ORCHESTRA. PUBLIC RB
beartals at the MUHICAL FUND HALL, everr
SATURDAY, at s4 P. M. Tickets sold at the door,
and at all principal Music Stores. Engagements can
be made by adoreaulnc; G. BASTKRT, No. lzai MON
TERKY btreet, or at B, WILLIU'S Music Store, No
ltf1 CHESNUT Htwet. 10sm
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and in addition makes beautiful Button and
Eylet Holes iu all fabrics.
ft has no Equal, being Abso
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Circulars, with full particulars and samples
of work done on this Machine, can be b&4 by
application at the
Salesrooms of tho Company,
S. W. Corner of ELEVENTH
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Instruction given on tbe Maobiue grata!-
i . i
lOUBiy 10 iu pnrcnaserg. - . n,
pKT THK BEST TH K HOLY BIBLE HARD
vji ing s r-omoua muuy, ruimt auu rocket uiiile
Iu beaultlul Istyleg ol Turkey Morocco aud antioig.
btodluKS. A new edition, axrajigud log UoVogiaAlilQ
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